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French police have thrown a security cordon around a shareholders meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies.

The Supreme Court has sidestepped a case against Google that might have allowed more lawsuits against social media companies.

A federal appeals court says Elon Musk cannot back out of a settlement with securities regulators over 2018 tweets claiming he had the funding to take Tesla private.

The European Union’s executive body raised its economic growth forecast, saying Europe had dodged a winter recession that was feared amid an energy crisis.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Britain on Monday, as the staunch ally of Ukraine prepares to give more military aid in an effort to change the course of the war.

France's foreign minister says two French citizens imprisoned in Iran have been freed.

Some 15,000 athletes will get to feast on fresh baguettes, gourmet dishes and environment-friendly French cuisine — but no wine — when Paris hosts the Summer Olympics next year.

French President Emmanuel Macron has led the traditional ceremony on Paris’ Champs-Elysees Monday commemorating May 8, the day that marked the end of World War II in Europe in 1945.

Lionel Messi has apologized to Paris Saint-Germain and his teammates for going to Saudi Arabia on an unauthorized trip that resulted in his suspension.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has abruptly canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy.

France’s top constitutional body has rejected a last-ditch effort by opposition lawmakers to undo President Emmanuel Macron’s law raising the retirement age to 64.

A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris Saint-Germain for taking a trip to Saudi Arabia without the club’s permission.

Europe’s painful inflation inched higher last month, extending the squeeze on households and keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to unleash another large interest rate increase.

Karl Lagerfeld’s fluffy pampered cat, Choupette, was a star in her own right.

The pioneering and scandalous French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923.

Workers squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice marked May Day with rallies around the world.

“They didn’t try to fix the brokenness,” his mother says. “They just broke him more.”

People in France with disabilities have protested by showing how difficult and frustrating it is for them to travel alone by train into Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron's government is under pressure over the rights of people with disabilities as he hosts the country's first national conference on the issue since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A country renowned for its cuisine is turning to pots and pans to express its discontent with French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.

A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46.

Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics.

Karl Lagerfeld transformed Chanel from frumpy to modern.

A French court has acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris.

Amazon has started charging a fee for certain returns made at UPS stores this week, according to multiple reports.

France’s Constitutional Council has approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64 that unleashed mass protests.

New films by Wes Anderson, Wim Wenders and Ken Loach are in the lineup for the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Protesters opposed to President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise the retirement age to 64 have marched in cities and towns around France, in a final show of anger before a decision on whether the measure meets constitutional standards.

A French investigative news website claims that the actor Gerard Depardieu has been accused of harassing, groping or sexually assaulting, mainly film extras.

One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

Get ready for a summer full of blockbuster events as Olympic hopefuls continue to work toward 2024 and the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris.

Charly Bancarel didn’t start running until he was 55, but the Paris Marathon was the 11th marathon he’s completed.

French trade union leaders have walked out of talks with the country's prime minister after failing to find a compromise on the contentious plan to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

A Lebanese-Canadian academic is going on trial for a deadly 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue.

A court in Algiers sentenced a prominent journalist to five years in prison with two years suspended on Sunday.

One of Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s largest known works, whose discovery behind the television room door of a house in northern France amazed the art world, has fetched 780,000 euros ($845,000) at auction in Paris.

French prosecutors say authorities have raided the Paris offices of five banks on suspicion of tax fraud.

A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in Europe has passed an important hurdle.

The Louvre Museum in Paris has been closed to the public because its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.

France says it's banning the “recreational″ use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees' phones.

More than a million people have demonstrated across France against unpopular pension reforms, with violence erupting in some places.

French garbage collectors, refinery workers and others are striking again.

The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners.

The cuts are on top of the previous layoffs that commenced last November and extended into January. That round affected more than 18,000 employees.

Parliament has adopted a divisive pension bill raising the retirement age in France from 62 to 64, after lawmakers in the lower chamber rejected two no-confidence votes against the government.

Protesters have vandalized the Nice office of the president of the Republican party in an apparent threat to get his right-wing party to vote to block President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform.

A parody photo appearing on protest signs and online in France shows President Emmanuel Macron sitting on piles of garbage.

A smattering of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise France’s retirement age have taken place in Paris and beyond.

It's a time of protest in Paris and much of France, where opponents hope to bring down the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen to shun parliament and impose his unpopular pension reforms via a special constitutional power, the so-called “Article 49_3.”.

The Women’s World Cup is getting an increase in prize money of more than 300% for this year’s tournament.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his prime minister to use a special constitutional power that skirts parliament to force through highly unpopular pension system changes.

Microsoft has struck a deal to make Xbox PC video games available on the Boosteroid cloud gaming platform.

An unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 has gotten a push forward.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron in efforts to mend relations following post-Brexit tensions; improving military and business ties; and toughening efforts against Channel migrant crossings.

Young people in France are protesting against the government’s push to raise the retirement age.

Paris Saint-Germain says Brazilian soccer player Neymar will undergo season-ending surgery on his damaged right ankle and will be out for up to four months.

Stars such as Avril Lavigne sat beneath the gothic style arches of Lanvin’s ornate Paris venue to view the old couture house’s latest designs, which riffed subtly on history.

The dull Paris weather didn't dim the power of the French capital’s ready-to-wear shows as Paris Fashion Week continued Saturday.

Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics promised relatively modest prices and “egalitarian” access to events through an online system meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to stadiums and arenas for as little as $26.

Fragile half-ton cubes of colored confetti lay on Loewe’s white runway at Paris Fashion Week.

French senators have started debating President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension plan.

Geo-political activism met tuxedo jackets at Paris Fashion Week as a vocal Ukrainian designer put on a show that paid homage to her country and to her team of over 20 people working in Kyiv.

After Milan, global fashion’s spotlight has shifted to the final stretch of ready-to-wear shows in Paris as the industry looks to the future with all the final fall trends.

A French court has dismissed a case brought against TotalEnergies by activists contending that the energy company's major oil projects in east Africa violated the human rights of the region's inhabitants and posed environmental risks.

French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to defend his unpopular pension plan in an effort to show that he hears concerns of farmers and other ordinary citizens.

A court in Paris has convicted Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred of rape and assault charges and sentenced him to six years in prison.

Boeing is again stopping deliveries of its 787 passenger used on many international routes.

The United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural agency chief is urging a global conversation on the regulation of social media and its role in the spread of misinformation in order to make the internet a safer place.

The governments of 34 nations signed a statement calling on the IOC to clarify the definition of “neutrality” as it seeks a way to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back into international sports and next year's Paris Olympics.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

Amazon will require corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week.

A fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests across France Thursday tested the government’s resolve on a controversial pension reform, the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.

French President Emmanuel Macron's pension plan has unleashed the most turbulent debate in years in the National Assembly, with uncertainty looming over the final outcome.

UEFA-appointed investigators have held European soccer's ruling body mostly responsible for chaotic security failures at the Champions League final in Paris last May.

Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now been bestowed with France’s highest medal of honor.

France’s TotalEnergies SE doubled its profits in 2022, joining other international oil and gas companies in fattening their bottom lines as high energy prices surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The International Energy Agency says Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s electricity by 2025.

Public transportation, schools and power supplies have been disrupted in France as tens of thousands of demonstrators held a third round of strikes and protests against planned pension reforms.

A contest that could define the 2024 Paris Olympics is playing out 18 months before medals are awarded.

Ukraine is stepping up efforts to lobby international sports leaders against Russian participation in next year’s Paris Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee has stepped up efforts to explain its position on trying to help Russian athletes qualify for the Paris Games.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with France’s president amid one of the deadliest periods of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years.

Ukraine’s defense minister says Ukrainian lives will be saved by a sophisticated air-defense radar that France is supplying.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are reteaming for a fourth “Bad Boys” movie, in one of Smith’s most high-profile new projects since the slap.

French authorities say an estimated 1.27 million people have joined in nationwide protests against the government’s planned pension reforms.

France’s national rail operator is recommending that passengers stay home if possible Tuesday to avoid labor strikes.

Julie Otsuka’s novel “The Swimmers,” in which a group of swimmers collectively narrate their daily routines and what happens when they’re disrupted, has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

France’s prime minister says that the government’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is “no longer negotiable."

France has called for the “immediate release” of seven French nationals detained in Iran.

A lawyer for Eva Green alleges that producers of a collapsed film tried to damage the French actress’ reputation by depicting her as a “diva.”.

The experimentalism and audacity of 1980s club kids inspired Valentino in one of the last high-octane shows of this Paris Fashion Week couture season.

Elie Saab has whisked his guests away to Thailand for a Paris Fashion Week couture show that gleamed with gold and intricate silk embroidery.

Paris is rushing to finish construction work in time for the 2024 Olympics with just 18 months to go.

Art has returned to a glittering Chanel universe, with monumental animal sculptures gathering in the center of the runway-in-the-round for its Paris Fashion Week couture show.

The pioneering Black performer Josephine Baker — who left the United States to find global fame in Paris in the 1920s — was Dior’s muse for an old school spring couture collection of archetypal classicism.

The French government is presenting a bill that foresees broad changes to the pension system that will notably push back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.

France and Germany have commemorated the 60th anniversary of their post-World War II friendship treaty by committing to “unwavering support” for Ukraine and to strengthening the European Union.

Designs by Loewe’s Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson are often credited by front-row editors as among the best if not the best gracing the Paris runways today.